CTD576 and TSOT440 John's Anniversary

Happy Saturday, everyone!  We are finally supposed to get some snow today---just in time for my Hostess party tomorrow!  The weatherman promises it is all going to get washed away by tomorrow!  We'll see!  

I'm sharing the card I made for John for our anniversary; it uses the Try Stampin On Tuesday sketch as well as the Color Throwdown colors:

I used the lighthouse image from Sailing Home for the focal point, and since there is a bit of ocean splash at the bottom, I guess it qualifies for the "wet" part of the challenge too:

I began with a large stitched circle of Naturals White cardstock.  On it, I stamped the lighthouse in Night of Navy and birds in Pretty Peacock, then diecut the lighthouse out and offset it against the cut opening; I added some Denim ribbon behind so that it would peek through the opening:

  

I added a background of Pretty Peacock DSP and mounted it on a Honey Nut card base (Papertrey).  I also diecut a sentiment with the Stitched Nested Labels dies, adding a Honey Nut mat as well.  The inside was stamped with a Technique Tuesday sentiment with some other words from Paper Studio added in:

He loved it!  Thanks for popping in today!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	A Wish for Everything, Sailing Home, Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio), So Grateful (Technique Tuesday)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White (ret), Pretty Peacock DSP, Honey Nut (Papertrey)
Ink	Night of Navy, Pretty Peacock
Accessories	Denim Ribbon (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Smooth Sailing Dies, Stitched Nested Labels Dies, Stitched Circle Dies (Lil'Inker), Aquapainter, Detailed Trio Punch

Twofer Wreath Challenge #11

Hi peeps! I am running very late today...I have my last stamp club of 2018 tonight so I spent the morning getting ready, and this colder weather has my allergies acting up!!  Anyone else "suffering" the same way?  I think it's all those yucky wet leaves!  Anyway, I got a very little bit of stamping time in over the weekend and made a couple cards for the Twofer Card Challenge, in which I have never participated!  My friend Carol is a guest designer there, so I decided to give it a try!  They're extremely CAS because that's all the energy I had, LOL!  So here we go:

I used Fun Stampers Journey's Harvest Wreath for the wreath; the wreath on the Thanksgiving card was stamped with Soft Suede ink and embellished with some faceted gems from Amber Moon; sadly, the photo just doesn't capture how pretty they are here:

My diecut sentiment was from the same set, stamped in Cajun Craze and overstamped with a stamp from Timeless Textures; the together was from The Paper Studio:

I finished it off with a Braided Linen Twine bow:

My second card is a Christmas card; the wreath was stamped in Soft Sea Foam, and the sentiment was stamped in Balmy Blue:

I colored some pearls with a Pink Pirouette Blend and added a Powder Pink bow:

And since the Christmas Card Throwdown's challenge is to use pink, green and blue, I am entering this one in their challenge as well!

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Cassidy snagged another sunrise photo from her kitchen deck this morning:

And here is a sunrise photo my brother took very early one morning over the fountains of Longwood Gardens:

God's glory!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Timeless Textures, Christmas Pines, Harvest Wreath (Fun Stampers Journey), Everyday Expressions (The Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Powder Pink, Naturals Ivory (ret)
Ink	Soft Sea Foam, Soft Suede, Balmy Blue, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Pearls, Satin Pink Powder Ribbon, Braided Linen Trim, Faceted Embellishments (Amber Moon), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Harvest Wreath Dies (Fun Stampers Journey)

FMS343 Vintage Snowmen

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  I have a quick little Christmas card today; I let the paper do most of the work on this one!  It uses the FMS sketch from Jen T:

and some fun coordinating vintage-style papers that came from.....I don't remember!  I think I bought this as a kit on Etsy!  Sorry!  Anyway, here we go:

My card base is Soft Sea Foam and I used a Papertrey die for the "Holiday", cut in Real Red. The words are stamped in Tranquil Tide, and I added a little baker's twine bow and some sequins from my stash!

I just love how that snowman is waving, right by the "hello"!  A happy coincidence!  The inside uses a little scrap of the printed paper and a sentiment from SU's retired Warmth and Wonder:

I am also entering this in The Merry Christmas challenge of Anything Goes!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Some pool time fun from last week....although it's going to rain today, no pool for us today!!!:

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Warmth & Wonder (ret), Everyday Expressions (The Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Soft Sea Foam, Real Red, Misc Christmas Paper
Ink	Tranquil Tide, Soft Sea Foam
Accessories	Sequins (Sylvia's Etsy Shop)
Tools	Big Shot, Holiday Die (Papertrey)

PP381 Sew Glad We're Friends

Hey, everyone!  Happy Sunday!  I am the hostess over at the Paper Players and our CAS challenge today is called Sew Much Fun!  Sewing used to be at the top of my "favorite hobby list" but now I would have to say that stamping has replaced it!  So I thought I could combine both and do a sewing-themed challenge!

I did THREE cards for my own challenge this week...my first one, I forgot the CAS part..so I'll share that one tomorrow!  This jury is still out on this one as to whether it is as clean and simple as I would prefer, but I had my heart set on using this DSP, so I went for it anyway!  (I think my teammates did a better job at the CAS part than I did!)  Anyway, I used Narelle's FMS sketch for this week:

And here we go - it's bright, you might want to wear your shades, LOL!

The older paper from Cosmo Cricket called Material Girl was my inspiration....unfortunately, I blocked one of the model's heads, but hopefully you can see the other pattern designs!  I used the sewing machine image and sentiment from SU's Puns from the Past, and added some stitched elements...the DSP and both circles...and added some retired ribbons in shades of green.  I broke my own rule of not adding a button, only because I thought it would be fun to use some green cotton perle thread I picked up at a yard sale, and it added a cute element to the sewing theme!  The larger circle was also stamped with the Linen background stamp!

 Finally, for the inside, I stamped the sentiment from Beautiful Day (that sentiment has gotten a LOT of use lately) and a few vintage sewing images from an older Cornish Heritage Farms set called Sew Special:

And here's the second card I did for the challenge....same sketch, but I thought with all the diecutting and piecing of the quilt block,  it might be a little fussy for the CAS challenge:

It will definitely be put to good use for some occasion!

The design team has some really cute and fun samples for you to check out:

·        Claire

·        Jaydee

·        Joanne

·        Laurie

·        Nance

·        Sandy

·        Elizabeth

·        Annie

·        Jan

 And we hope you'll play along too!  Can't wait to see what you create!

Friday night was Cassidy's first father/daughter dance....a big evening!  She has a sweater over the prettiest part of her dress....the bodice had pink sequins on it!  She even had a little wrist corsage!  So sweet!

And Charlie even wore cuff links that said "Daddy"!!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Day, Puns from the Past, Linen Background (both ret SU), Sew Special (ret Cornish Heritage Farms)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Lucky Limeade, Material Girl DSP (Cosmo Cricket)
Ink	Basic Gray, Old Olive, Pear Pizzazz, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Button, Perle Cotton, Various SU ret ribbons
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Layering Circle Framelits, Glue Dots, Dimensionals

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Powder Pink, Very Vanilla, Summer Crush DSP (Maja Designs)
Ink	Bashful Blue (ret)
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Quilt Builder Thinlet (ret), Stitched Shapes Framelit, Dimensionals, Elegant Dots EF (ret)

Chelsea Gardens Collection

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I hope you have some fun things planned today!  We have some snarky weather going on -- snow forecast for this afternoon and temps in the high 60s next week!  Crazy!  Anyway, I recently received some lovely papers from CTMH called Chelsea Gardens..they are beautiful!!  I am afraid I might hoard them!  But I did "challenge" myself to use the pages that are meant for scrapping...I cut them apart, trimmed a few down and made them into some simple cards!  So I thought I would share!

Yesterday was Dana's birthday, and this simple notecard with a blue butterfly called her name!  I have a fun set of word stamps, so I put a bunch together and stamped them in Smoky Slate on each dotted line, then added the daughter sentiment at the bottom.  

It's impossible to see here, but I added some Wink of Stella to the wings and it was quite pretty!

The next one had this gorgeous floral background but a different sentiment in the middle, so I stamped the birthday greeting from Beautiful Day in Basic Gray and added a Baja Breeze scalloped mat, then mounted it on a card of Lucky Limeade!  (Using up some of those retired colors, LOL!)

Finally, an Easter card using a CTMH stamp called Easter Animals Occasions; I originally stamped this little bunny in order to practice with the Blends, and he came out so well I decided to actually use him on a card!  I added a little striped scrap that was laying on my desk, a couple of Crumb Cake borders and mounted it on a white card base:

Reminds me of the little bunnies we see around our yard in the spring!!

Thanks for visiting today--be sure to come back tomorrow as I will be the hostess for the Paper Players!  

I "repurposed" Cassidy's gift bag for the little girl across the road on Valentine's Day...she always wants to write on her mom's post it notes as we sit in the car waiting for the bus, so I gave her a little pad of her own, and a piece of chocolate in the bag, re-tied the bow and she thought it was the cat's pajamas!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Day, Easter Animals Occasions (Close to My Heart) Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio), Celebrate Family (Fiskars)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Crumb Cake,  Baja Breeze and Lucky Limeade (ret), Chelsea Gardens DSP (Close to My Heart)
Ink	Memento Black, Basic Gray, Smoky Slate
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Ovals Framelits,  Stitched Shapes Framelits, Blends, Dimensionals

AYSI154 Crazy Sweet

Happy Friday, peeps!  It's the end of a long, very hot week....I feel like I have been melting!  I hope you're staying cool, wherever you are!  It's time for another As You See It challenge...I just love these!  Today's is a great sketch:

Sadly, I hadn't even opened up my June Paper Pumpkin OR broken into this fun DSP pack, Pick a Pattern!  Since this particular pattern had some watermelon-ish colors, I thought it would be fun to add a little melon to my card to make a birthday greeting for my niece!  Here we go:

I stamped the watermelon images in Flirty Flamingo and Emerald Envy, then used a set of words from the Paper Studio called Everyday Expressions to make the rest of my sentiment:

I cut out a little flower from a scrap of the DSP for a wee little embellishment, and added some black candy dots to finish it off!  I hope you'll play with our sketch -- you have two weeks to create something with it!  Be sure to check out the DT's samples at the AYSI blog, too!

It's been so hot, we've been doing some playing inside to beat the heat.....Cassidy always has about five or six dolls she's "mothering" at any given moment!

 Enjoy your day--be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pumpkin (June 2017), Everyday Expressions (The Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Basic Black, Pick A Pattern DSP
Ink	Basic Black, Emerald Envy, Flirty Flamingo
Accessories	Candy Dots
Tools	Circle Punch, Blossom Die (Nestabilities), Big Shot, Dimensionals

SIP96 CAS Wedding

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  It's time for another Stamp Ink Paper challenge....CAS wedding!

Wedding season is coming up!  Sadly, I have very few stamps that would be considered "wedding" stamps, but I did find a couple images from the retiring Every Occasion that worked!  I used the sketch from last week's Freshly Made Sketches; even though it's too late to submit, I thought the sketch was fun and worked well with my images and papers:

I just got some pretty springy papers from Bo Bunny's Petal Lane Collection and I picked out a simple stripe that would complement my heart and wedding bells:

I used a tiny bit of black for accent and used another banner from Time of Year (it was already sitting on my desk from yesterday's card!) and added some elements from The Paper Studio to complete my sentiment!  Easy and quick!  I hope you'll share your CAS wedding creations with us...be sure to check out what the other DT did as well!  

Saturday was room clean-up time!  Of course, there had to be some hijinks before she got down to serious work, although she did put the clothes away that were in the basket before she got into it!  Silly girl!

And she proudly showed Grampy her room once it was done...not perfect, but we're "in training"!  

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details--All Products SU Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Every Occasion, Time of Year, Everyday Expressions (The Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Watercolor, Basic Black, Petal Lane Collection DSP (Bo Bunny)
Ink	Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Regal Rose (ret)
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Scallop Circle Dies (Nestabilties), Dimensionals